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Coming up... A deepening dispute on the tip of Europe. Britain threatens

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unprecedented Europe -- action against Spain. Amid the tensions,

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Britain is sending warships to the region in what it says is a routine

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visit. Is that help people in Spain see it?

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Zimbabwe's President defends his recent election victory and tells

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his opponents they can go hang if they do not like the result.

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A major rethink on who should be jailed in the United States. The

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Attorney General says some drug business should not be jailed at

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all. Did the authorities in Rome ever

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expect this much traffic? They begin to crack down on cars.

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Good evening. It is less than six square kilometres in size, has a

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population of 30,000 people and for 300 years has been British.

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Gibraltar is also contentious. Wayne claims sovereignty and recently

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tightened its border controls in a dispute over fishing rights with the

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tiny British territory. UK government has threatened

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unprecedented action with its EU and NATO partner to end the crisis. Our

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correspondent reports. This ship is sailing from Portsmouth today and is

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headed for the Spanish coast. These powerful pictures can be misleading.

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This is not a response to Spain's action on its border with Gibraltar.

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It is part of a long planned naval exercise which will see Royal Navy

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warships calling at Gibraltar and the Spanish naval base. Spain is a

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NATO ally. Nonetheless, some like to see this as a symbol of Britain's

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power, just as the government threatens possible legal action

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against Spain. This is what Britain says Spain must stop. The imposition

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of border checks causing long queues and delay and anger and frustration

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at Westminster. A government spokesman says legal action is being

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considered. Officials say it is disproportionate and politically

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motivated, designed to drive Britain towards concessions. It has been a

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British overseas territory for 300 years. The Spanish response is

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learnt. It says it has the right to operate rigorous controls and an

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obligation to fight what they allege is widespread smuggling. There is

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nothing new about this dispute and it has been running for yours. It

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got worse today with Britain threatening what it calls

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unprecedented legal action. The trouble was going to the courts for

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either side is that you can never guarantee the outcome. Legally, the

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issue comes down to whether the people in Gibraltar at EU citizens.

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The United Kingdom's position is that for these purposes they are.

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Under those circumstances, Spain is allowed to impose minimal Chak --

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checks. Spain has contested that. Spain is proposing Sarah checks.

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ferret checks. Some people have said the people of Gibraltar...

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TRANSLATION: Both countries have different opinions but I think it is

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a smoke screen to detract from the problems in Spain. Personally I care

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more about the Spanish problems that we must resolve. British warships

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may be on their way to the Mediterranean but that is pure

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coincidence. The political and legal argument will decide the dispute.

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With me is the Director General for Foreign Policy at Spain's Ministry

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of Foreign Affairs. Is it a coincidence that the border checks

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have become so vigorous? For us the concern is of course the checks on

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the fisheries. We agreed certain situations with the UK government.

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We have a responsibility. We must work together. The decision taken by

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the British authorities and the authorities in Gibraltar have

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affected her situation. We have to review the situation. Are you

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suggesting that the increase in the rigorous nests of these border

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checks is a consequence of the fact that these boulders were thrown down

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to create the artificial reef? at all. It is a different situation.

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You have their souls coming Judah brought -- coming to Gibraltar for

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transport. -- vessels coming. The Spanish authorities have to control

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what is happening. We had issues with smuggling so we must work to

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control what is happening. We have all the information at our disposal

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to explain what is happening. Our actions are proportionate. We are

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trying to fight against smuggling in the area. Is spending seven hours on

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the border proportionate? It depends on the number of people you have to

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control. There are borders we must control. For example at Heathrow

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airport you have long queues. There are people who must control this and

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it is the same here. We have seen an increase in smuggling and we must

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act directly as a consequence. British government suggests that it

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could take the case to the European Union and this could become a --

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illegal issue. Does that concern you? Not at all. We have given the

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information to the European Commission. They are going to come

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over in September and October to these areas and check out what is

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happening. It is a regular check that they will do and we are more

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than ready to give them the information they require. Thank you.

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We can cross to Madrid where are our correspondent awaits. Our guests

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said the increase integration and the border checks in place is not as

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a direct consequence of the artificial barrier. How are people

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in Spain seen this issue? I think people away from the area just by

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the border with Gibraltar, the area just over the border, people have a

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very different opinion. I think allot of people in Spain feel

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passionately that Gibraltar should be part of Spain. That is despite

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the history and despite the fact that it was given to Britain over

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300 years ago. But then you go to different areas, we were in

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Gibraltar over the last few days, and there you get different

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opinions, not just from British and local people, but also from Spanish

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people. The communities in Spain and Gibraltar are very mixed. Thousands

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of people work in southern Spain and live in Gibraltar so there is a huge

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commuter belt of people every day. What about the reports that

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Gibraltar and the issue of the Falkland islands could be brought up

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in the European Union? I spoke to officials in the building behind me

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in Madrid and they have confirmed that. The Spanish government is now

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looking at the possibility of taking the issue of Gibraltar to the United

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Nations. It is so looking at taking a common front with Argentina.

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Argentina has an issue with Britain over sovereignty of the Falkland

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Islands, another British territory, and Britain and Argentina went to

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war over that territory in 1982. Spain interestingly is studying all

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the possibilities. The foreign ministers of Spain and Argentina are

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due to meet and they will discuss the possibility of forming a common

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front. The possibility is that Spain can take the issue in front of the

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United Nations. Britain is a permanent member on the UN Security

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Council and it can veto any resolution put before the council.

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There is diplomacy going on, pressure on both sides, both

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countries, Spain and Britain are now taking action and making gestures,

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saying what they could do. The reality of what that would mean in

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practice could be quite limited. will see what happens. Thank you.

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The newly re-elected President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has brushed

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aside claims he stole the election. In his first speech since the boat,

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he had strong words for his rivals. He thanked the country for its

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support. -- since the boat. -- since the result. He has said he will take

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Zimbabwe forward. The economy is teetering on the brink. For more

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than three decades he has ruled. The 89-year-old now has five more years

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in power. This commemoration was for those who died in independence. His

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speech was the chance to link that with the ballot but many people

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consider is undermined by cheating. We are delivering democracy. We have

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delivered it on a platter. Do you take it? We say take it or leave it.

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He thanked the observers for their support. The opposition leader

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Morgan China right did not attend the event. He says the event -- the

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result was rigged. -- Morgan Tsvangirai. Those who are hurting

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from defeat can go and hang themselves he said. And with his own

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unique colour and tone of phrase he added... Even the dogs won't come

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and sniff their corpses. The opposition Movement for

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Democratic Change was confident of victory going into the elections.

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But when defeat came, they rejected the official result and the

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opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai challenges the outcome under the

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chart -- constitutional court. He issued his statement. It seems

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unlikely the Constitutional Court will side with the opposition. It

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will not be long before President Mugabe will be up on stage once

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again being inaugurated. He is the only leader this country has ever

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had. With American prisons full to

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bursting point the US Justice Department has been reviewing its

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role on sentencing for drug offences. A short while ago the US

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Attorney General outline some major changes designed to improve

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sentencing policy across the country. He spoke to the American

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Bar Association in San Francisco and said less serious offences would not

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require minimum prison sentences. Some of the enforcement priorities

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have had a destabilising effect on particular communities. Applied

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inappropriately, they are ultimately counter-productive. That is why I

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have mandated a modification for the target policy so that certain

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low-level, non-violent drug offenders with no ties to

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large-scale organisations are cartels will no longer be charged

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with offences that impose Draconian minimum sentences. They now will be

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charged with offences for which the accompanying sentences are better

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suited to the individual conduct, rather than excessive as interns. --

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prison terms. How will this change in policy help to alleviate prison

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numbers. The Federal bureau of prisons says 47% of inmates in

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America are in prison for drug offences. 45% of those prisoners are

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therefore low-level offences. Our correspondent has listening to his

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speech and she joins us now. What do these changes mean?

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The Attorney General is recognising that the present system is

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unsustainable and counter-productive. He said that

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there is a vicious cycle of poverty, criminality, and

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incarceration. We have a black prison population that is 37%, with

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blacks only making up for 9% of the population as a whole. He wants to

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break the vicious cycle that traps certain communities and find a way

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to reduce the prison population. Nearly half of all prisoners are

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there for her -- drug-related offence is. 5% of the worlds

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population and 25% of the world's prison population - US prisons are

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semantically overpopulated. -- dramatically. He wants to direct

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prosecutors to write up charges differently so that instead of

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triggering a mandatory minimum sentences they can avoid that I

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simply not writing the amount of drugs found, for instance. That is a

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legacy of the war on drugs from the 1980s, he claims we can stop doing

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that by taking simple measures. Thank you for talking us through

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that. Authorities in Egypt have disposed

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of plans to disperse of set and is being conducted by supporters of the

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ousted president, Mohammed Morsi. -- sit-ins. The decision was made in

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order to avoid bloodshed, meanwhile the judiciary has extended the

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detention of the former president by another set nine days pending

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investigations into his alleged collaboration with how mass. -- 15

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days. -- how mass. -- Hamas. The younger brother of Prince

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Willem-Alexander has died having been in a coma since as skiing

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accident last year. Rinse fries or was on holiday with his family in

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the Austrian Alps. -- Prince Friso. He was skiing with a friend when the

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avalanche came and was trapped under the snow for 20 minutes, his fame

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starved of oxygen. The family made sombre visits to the University

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Hospital in Innsbruck before he was transferred to London for specialist

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treatment. Prince Friso had been married for almost a decade. But

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because it was a marriage without consent he lost his membership of

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the royal house and was no longer in line to succeed the Dutch throne.

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But his mother approved. -- succeed too. The Dutch royal family are

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popular. Thousands turned out to watch William Alexander becoming

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king earlier this year. This is the palace. With the announcement of any

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royal death you could expect to find crowds. But there are a few people.

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They may have gone to the alternative residence, where Prince

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Friso returned to last month, or it could be that people simply

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anticipated it, they are upset but not shocked. The Dutch play minister

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paid his respects with a statement expressing sympathy for the family.

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union official has been shot dead at a platinum mine in South Africa,

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where 34 workers were killed by police last year. The National union

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of Mineworkers said the woman was shot outside her home. Tensions have

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led to several shootings at platinum mines over the last year. A Nazi war

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coals suspect has died whilst awaiting train -- trial. He was

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suffering a number of medical problems. He is alleged to have

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helped report 15,000 Jews to death camps.

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The names have been released of Palestinian prisoners set to be

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freed as part of a peace deal. The announcement comes after Palestinian

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officials accused Israel of trying to sabotage negotiations by

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approving fodder settlements. -- more.

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Her head of population Roma has more than three times as many cars as

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London. -- Rome. The very centre of the city. An endless frenzy of

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traffic. An eternal rush hour in the terrible city. They say that all

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roads lead to Rome. -- eternal city. Cars flood the piazza is here. The

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modern city as struggling to cope with the invasion. Drivers with race

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down through the heart of the historic centre, reducing the

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Coliseum to not much more than a roundabout. A famous building

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located in a torrent of traffic, fumes, vibrations. But suddenly

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there is a very different at just. Can has fallen. -- calm. It is

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thanks to the new mayor, a cycling enthusiast. He plans to

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pedestrianise the area completely. We need to make a choice. Yesterday

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as talking to others in a place like this. -- history is talking to us.

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With all the traffic diverted away, it has to go somewhere. It is being

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channelled down side streets and the local residents do not approve.

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agree with protecting the Coliseum, but it cannot be done at our

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expense. Pollution will come to our area and cars will block everything.

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But the millions of tourists who are drawn to the Coliseum well of the

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underwent a life-saving double lung transplant. Five years later he has

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someone from Alcatraz island to San matters. If you can imagine being in

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a swimming pool when somebody dunks your head under water. All you can

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think about is getting back to the surface. Everything else disappears.

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My disease was a tape of pulmonary fibrosis. No cure. The only

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treatment was a transplant. My children were very young. They said,

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listen, you need to do this or you will die. I had no choice. I cannot

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think of any other situation like that. You are waiting on somebody

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either been killed or dying so you can get the organ. I got two longs.

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It sounds unbelievably difficult. -- lungs. I woke up, took a deep

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breath, I could not believe it. The longevity statistics are terrible.

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So when I approached the Friday year mark I thought, I should do

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something big. -- five-year. I thought this would be fun to do. I

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went in first. My son followed. Then my daughter. It was freezing.

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looked further than I expected. I kind of was scared by that!

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vastness of the ocean is magnificent. I love the feeling of

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having all that debt the below you. you are in your 40s you will live

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until your 50s, 60s, everybody living longer. That is not my

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assumption. You have to take each day as it

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comes and a PC it what you are doing. Spend time with your family.

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-- appreciate. You do not know where BBC News website. You can read a

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diary account of Gavin's task. From the showers today. A number of them

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around, particularly to the North. They are clearing away. And we will

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have a meteor shower. Take a look at the sky for a a few minutes and if

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you are lucky you may see one of those shooting stars. Tomorrow,

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increasing cloud across central areas. These areas, probably

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clothing over most of the day. It looks as though the south coast will

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be dry. Temperatures reaching about 19 Celsius. Used words, you can

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